Frantz Fanon

A Dying Colonialism

Cultural practices and resistance in Algerian national liberation struggle against France

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Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon

Martinican-Algerian psychiatrist and revolutionary theorist whose The Wretched of the Earth is the foundational text of postcolonial theory. Black Skin, White Masks analyzed the psychological effects of colonialism on the colonized. He died of leukemia at 36, the year Algeria won independence.

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